What Matters Now to Bret Stephens: Where North American universities went wrong
Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT journalist weighs in on why Jewish students shouldn’t want a place at the DEI table even as their rights are being trampled on campuses
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWelcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World with host Amanda Borschel-Dan.
This week, as campuses across North America open their doors for their fall semester, we speak with New York Times Opinion columnist Bret Stephens.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer recently wrote a column called, “What I Want a University President to Say About Campus Protests,” in which he channels a university president presenting his foundational principles, including, “the spirit of inquiry.”
In this week’s episode, we hear Stephens’s take on concepts that have evolved and flourished on campuses in the past several decades, including how critical theory has shifted faculties and the role of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI).
So this week, as students return to campuses, we ask Bret Stephens, what matters now?
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